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Wildland Fire Canada 2016

By admin May 19, 2016workshop

The Wildland Fire Canada 2016 conference is fast approaching and is looking for exciting and innovative presentations. This year’s theme - Building Resilience is designed to reflect a critical fire management objective and challenge…

PhD opportunity, Besancon, France

By Boris Vannière February 2, 2016workshop

The University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Eastern France) and the Chrono-environnement lab., in collaboration with the École Pratique des Hautes Études and l’Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (Southern France),…

Fire history Baselines by biome

By Boris Vannière January 14, 2016workshop

September 25 – 29, 2016 (near Bordeaux, France) We are pleased to announce an open call for letters of interest to participate in a workshop on “Fire history baselines by…

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

By Boris Vannière December 8, 2015Analyses

Highlights: • 18 southern European charcoal records document 16,000 years of fire regime changes. • Since the Neolithic, land uses have artificially maintained high fire frequencies. • Human-induced decreases in…

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment charcoal records to improve data-model comparisons

By admin November 18, 2015Analyses

Abstract. The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records…

Paleofire: data-model comparisons for the past millenium

By admin November 18, 2015workshop

27 September - 2 October 2015, Harvard Forest USA A final synthesis workshop of the GPWG was held at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. The workshop aim was to bring researchers…

People

By admin November 16, 2015Organisation

Focus Groups

By admin November 14, 2015Organisation

Crosscutting Initiatives

By admin November 13, 2015Organisation

paleofire: An R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass burning

By admin November 18, 2014Analyses

Abstract: We describe a new R package, paleofire, for analysis and synthesis of charcoal time series, such as those contained in the Global Charcoal Database (GCD), that are used to reconstruct…